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We are very happy to announce here the books submitted for the 2018 award, which this year features a record 63 entries. To qualify, all titles must fit the award’s political requirements, and have been published in 2017 by an author who is primarily resident in the UK.

The Shortlist will be announced on the 24th April 2018, and the award ceremony will be taking place at the London Radical Bookfair on Saturday 2nd June 2018. This year’s bookfair will be held at Goldsmiths University’s Great Hall.

Our thanks to all publishers and authors who have submitted titles.
The Submission List is presented here in alphabetical order, by publisher.

Nasty Women

Heather McDaid (Editor), Laura Jones (Editor)

404INK

Bitch Doctrine: Essays For Dissenting Adults

Laurie Penny

Bloomsbury

Dead Zone: Where the Wild Things Were

Philip Lymbery

Bloomsbury

How To Resist: Turn Protest To Power

Matthew Bolton

Bloomsbury

Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race

Reni Eddo-Lodge

Bloomsbury Circus

Politics Of The Mind: Marxism And Mental Distress

Iain Ferguson

Bookmark

Reader’s Guide To Marx’s Capital, A

Joseph Choonara

Bookmark

Know Your Place

Nathan Connolly (Editor)

Dead Ink

Post-Truth

Matthew D’Ancona

Ebury Press

Confessions Of A Recovering Environmentalist

Paul Kingsnorth

Faber & Faber

Future Sex: A New Kind Of Free Love

Emily Witt

Faber & Faber

Secret Life: Three True Stories

Andrew O’Hagan

Faber & Faber

Collusion: How Russia Helped Trump Win The White House

Luke Harding

Faber & Faber / Guardian

Dismembered: How The Atack On The State Harms Us All

Polly Toynbee, David Walker

Faber & Faber / Guardian

Border: A Journey To The Edge Of Europe

Kapka Kassabova

Granta

Island: A Journey Around Our Archipelago

Patrick Barkham

Granta

A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind

Rachel Hewitt

Granta

Secret Twenties: British Intelligence, The Russians and the Jazz Age

Timothy Phillips

Granta

Strange Labrinth

Will Ashton

Granta

To Be A Machine

Mark O’Connell

Granta

Attack of the 50 Ft. Women: How Gender Equality Can Save The World!

Catherine Mayer

HarperCollins HQ

Diversify: Six Degrees of Integration

June Sarpong

HarperCollins HQ

Struggle Or Starve

Sean Mitchell

Haymarket

Go Back to Where You Came From: The Backlash Against Immigration & the Fate of Western Democracy